Climate change threatens food supplies: As Lake Tanganyika warms, food-fish populations shrink.(Environment)(Brief Article) From: The Futurist | Date: November 1, 2003| Author: Wagner, Cynthia G. | COPYRIGHT 2003 World Future Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Long-term changes in the temperature of Lake Tanganyika in East Africa could have devastating impacts on a major food source for the region. Already, fish stocks in the lake have fallen by 30% in the past 80 years while algae declined by 20%, reports a team of researchers supported by the National Science Foundation.

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In addition to the commercially important species of fish, which supply up to 40% of the animal protein for communities bo...